Roundup of Food Blog Posts I’ve Enjoyed #7

I tried out one of the easiest recipes in the book first, by throwing a few eggs into the oven at 225º after soaking them in warm water while the oven was preheating. The eggs then slow-roasted for about 5 hours. When they came out, they had this mildly smoky flavor and gorgeous golden color.

It turned out that even the smokiness couldn’t make a non-runny yolk appeal to me, but I loved cracking the shells open and finding the gilded whites like jewels hidden inside.

More to the point, here is another batch of food blog posts made by other people that I enjoyed immensely and recommend highly to you.

The capirotada I discovered over at Matt Bites is enticingly familiar, and at the same time thrillingly strange – almost the bread pudding I grew up with, it is actually a Mexican dessert calling for the inclusion of cheese and piloncillos (small cones of unrefined brown sugar).

These Butter Prawns made by Rasa Malaysia look succulently savorysweet and utterly mouth-watering, made with grated coconut, birdseye chilis, curry leaves, and more. I also can’t wait to try out her recipe for Nasi Lemak, which she declares to be the de facto national dish of Malaysia. It involves coconut rice, anchovy sambal, hard-boiled eggs, fried fishies, and cucumber. I have been dying for an excuse to buy and use the dried anchovies I always see in Chinatown, and I think this is precisely the recipe I’ve been waiting for.

I only just discovered Annie’s blog, Bon Appegeek, but I’m already in love. I’m sure that Katya will appreciate it greatly if I follow Annie’s instructions for how to roast butternut squash rounds using domesticated animals you may have around the house. As for me, I’m filled with a strong craving for nurungji, a Korean dish of almost-but-not-quite-burnt rice scraped from the bottom of the pot. Annie makes this sound good. Actually, Annie makes this sound great. If that doesn’t say all that needs to be said about how wonderful a writer she is, I give up right now. Get over there and read through her archives like I did when I first came across her blog. Pronto.

Helene at Tartelette is a genius. I can tell, because she posted a recipe for Sweet Potato and Baby Vidalia Scones that is making me hungry even as I type this. I suspect I won’t be able to find baby Vidalias at this time of year, but maybe if I substitute leeks I can make do until they show up at the greenmarkets again.

Do try the creme brulee cocktail…I made it sunday for the first time and I ended up wished I had made a double batch…I wanted to hide it from my friends…that’s bad!
I made your spare ribs the other day: finger licking good. This is one of my new favorites!
Should we try another shot at a jam/preserve exchange?

Hehehe, an easy way to make nurungji is just get some day old rice, then press it in a foccaccia press till it is golden brown ;) It’s not *quite* the same as scraping it from the bottom of the rice cooker, but it’s much more efficient and easier!